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Cuadra was born on November 4, 2014, in Managua but spent the majority of his life in Granada. Cuadra or PAC was the son of Carlos Cuadra Pasos and Merceditas Cardenal. Cuadra is a first cousin of the writer Ernesto Cardenal.

Cuadra's Poemas nicaragüenses was published in 1934. He opposed the American intervention against Augusto César Sandino in the 1930s and broke with the Somoza dynasty in the 1940s.

In 2000 he became co-director of La Prensa newspaper alongside his cousin and partner, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal. Chamorro was assassinated by Somoza supporters in 1978.[2] Cuadra was briefly jailed in 1956 for his opposition to the Somoza's régime.[4] In 1961 he became editor of the influential journal El Pez y La Serpiente (The Fish and the Serpent),[5] which was highly influential in Latin America.